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Monitoring rapporteurs condemn ongoing ‘borderisation’ in Georgia

26/11/2018

Monitoring

PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Georgia, Kerstin Lundgren and Titus Corlăţean, have condemned the ongoing “borderisation” of the administrative boundary line with South Ossetia by the Russian Federation. More

Ukraine: monitoring visit by PACE rapporteurs

15/11/2018

Monitoring

Dzhema Grozdanova and Alfred Heer, Assembly co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of obligations and commitments by Ukraine, will make a fact-finding visit to Kyiv from 19 to 21 November 2018. More

Bulgaria: Frank Schwabe and Zsolt Nemeth appalled by the murder of the journalist Viktoria Marinova

08/10/2018

Monitoring

Frank Schwabe and Zsolt Nemeth, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly for post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, are appalled by the brutal murder and rape of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova. More

Armenia monitor calls on all political forces to fully respect democratic principles and the rule of law

03/10/2018

Monitoring

The co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Armenia by the PACE, Yuliya Lovochkina, has called on all political forces and players in Armenia to fully respect democratic principles and the rule of law, both in word and deed. More

Co-rapporteurs to make post-monitoring visit to Bulgaria

01/10/2018

Monitoring

Frank Schwabe and Zsolt Németh, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for post-monitoring dialogue with Bulgaria, will make a fact-finding visit to Sofia from 3 to 5 October. More

The signing of the agreement to solve the name issue in “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” has raised “immense hopes” of achieving Euro-Atlantic integration, according to the co-rapporteurs. More

Did you know?

The Assembly's monitoring helps Council of Europe member states to fulfil their promises to uphold the highest democratic and human rights standards. The procedure works in four ways.

Full monitoring procedure: This involves regular visits by a pair of rapporteurs, who conduct an ongoing dialogue with authorities, and occasional plenary debates to ensure that a state's progress and problems are honestly assessed. This currently applies to ten states (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Russian Federation, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine).

Post-monitoring dialogue: States that have made progress may pass on to this stage, a less intensive procedure involving a limited number of remaining issues. This currently applies to three states (Bulgaria, Montenegro and North Macedonia).

Periodic reviews: All other member states are subject to this process roughly every five to six years, which draws together information from all parts of the Council of Europe to arrive at an overall assessment of how far they are honouring their obligations and commitments to the organisation. This currently applies to 34 of the Council's 47 member states.

Specific report on the Functioning of Democratic Institutions: Finally, the committee can prepare a report on the functioning of democratic institutions in any member state when particular developments warrant.

The Monitoring Committee is responsible for verifying the fulfilment of obligations assumed by member States under the terms of the Statute of the Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights and all other Council of Europe Conventions to which they are parties, as well as the honouring of commitments entered into by the authorities of member States upon accession to the Council of Europe.